by Talking Humanities | Oct 16, 2018 | Being Human festival, Features, Public Engagement
Sebastian Groes, professor of English literature at the University of Wolverhampton, goes ‘snidge scrumpin’ for the lost odours of the Black Country while charting a new 21st-century palate in his memorably named Being Human event, Snidge Scrumpin’: mapping smell and...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 27, 2018 | Being Human festival, Features, Public Engagement, Republished
With under eight weeks to go before the start of the UK-wide Being Human festival, Dr Sara Brooks, professional specialist in global and public humanities at Princeton University, outlines the North American version of the festival, its cultural similarities and how,...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 6, 2018 | Being Human festival, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Republished
Dr Anna-Louise Milne, director of graduate studies and research at University of London Institute in Paris, provides some insights into her public engagement work with refugees and migrants in Paris, and her work with the School of Advanced Study’s Being Human...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 14, 2017 | Being Human festival, Events, Features, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement
The Paris Centre for Migrant Writing and Expression, under the guidance of University of London Institute in Paris’ director of research, Anna-Louise Milne, has been working with migrants and asylum seekers in Northern Paris for more than five years. As part of...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 24, 2017 | Being Human festival, Digital, Events, Features, History & Classics, Public Engagement
Image: The London by Willem van de Velde the younger © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London The London exploded and sank off Southend, concealing herself for centuries on the estuary bed. Her wreck was found in 2005, revealing a hidden history of early modern...
